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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition
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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition

by Nilanchala Panigrahy
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
6h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting the app icon and package name

Xamarin.Android provides a default icon and package name for apps. The icon will be displayed on the Android device's home drawer alongside other application lists, as well as on the action bar at the top of each view.

In order to adjust the defaults for these settings, perform the following steps:

  1. The application icon images are provided in the Assets folder of the code bundle.
  2. Using Finder/Windows Explorer, copy ic_launcher.png from your computer's hard disk to the respective Resources\drawable folders.
  3. From Xamarin Studio, navigate to Resources\drawable, right-click on it, and click on Add Files or alternatively, you can drag and drop the launcher images to the Xamarin Studio Resource/drawable folders.
  4. You should ...
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